# 119-s-4147: Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act

119-s-4147, Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] (D-CT); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-11).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-4147
- Congress: 119
- Title: Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-03-19
- Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] (D-CT)
- Cosponsors: 4
- Policy area: Commerce
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-11

## Summary

**Broadly expands liability for price discrimination under the Clayton Act.** This bill would widen what the law covers and strengthen remedies by redefining covered transactions, adding new targets of liability, removing a common seller defense, and creating a damages presumption. - Consumers and purchasers: Would make it easier for buyers to recover from discriminatory pricing by creating a conclusive presumption that they sustained injury and damages equal to the monetary amount or equivalent of the unlawful discrimination. - Sellers and retailers: Would strip the long‑disputed "meeting competition" defense and make it unlawful to induce or receive the benefit of discriminatory pricing, while imposing a knowledge requirement for persons with annual retail sales not exceeding $100 billion. - Scope and definitions: Would expand "in commerce" to "in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce", replace "goods" and "commodities" with "products or services", and define "purchaser" to include anyone who pays or grants anything of value in exchange for a product or service.

## Cosponsors (4)

- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ] (D-AZ), 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] (D-PA), 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2026-03-19T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Knowledge requirement for many retailers: benefit, high. This bill would limit strict liability for many sellers. A person with annual retail sales of $100,000,000,000 or less would be liable under the covered paragraph only if they knowingly induced or knowingly received the benefit of the violation. Plaintiffs would need to prove that the seller acted…
- Broader coverage for products and services: mixed, high. This bill would expand the Clayton Act to cover "products or services" and activities "in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce." It would add the words "service provision" and "functional discounts" to covered transactions. The bill would also define "purchase" and "purchaser" broadly, in…
- Stronger remedies and broader liability: mixed, high. This bill would remove the long-standing defense that a seller simply met a competitor's price. It would make people who induce or receive benefits from discriminatory pricing potentially liable. In court, proven unlawful discrimination would be conclusively presumed to cause money damages equal to…

## Related bills

- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act
- 119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act
- 119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026
- 119-s-1503: Equality Act

## Sources
- [119-s-4147 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4147)

## Related
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3869)
- [119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-51)
- [119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5108)
- [119-s-1503: Equality Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1503)
- [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4147 (as of 2026-08-11).